yea hor..元音老人 passed away. sorry.
i thinking also late Ven Shen Kai, your master.. :)
....Drubwang Rinpoche as mentioned, but i never heard his
teaching much, only heard his conduct, already can tell.
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Yes, didn't mentioned my Master though because he asked for
'living'...
My Taiwanese teacher has hinted that he will pass away in a few
years. In fact he almost passed away a year back or so, but after
hundreds of people requested him to continue teaching, he did
continue to live on. (he had around 5k students in Taiwan, but at
that time when he was dying, just nice our Singapore community was
visiting him and they all prayed and requested him to stay)
He has the ability to go at will... he also described how he can
die at will by entering very deep samadhi and cessation.
He's still not very old (60 now) but he said he and Master Shen
Kai always 'take turn'... like passing the baton to one another,
for many lifetimes (even in previous lifetimes they were abbots of
the same Zen monastery in Kyoto)... their relationship began when
they were both students of Rahula (Buddha's son) in Shakyamuni
Buddha's lifetime (anyway, my Master became the 'in charge' of
Rahula's students after Rahula passed away... though I can't
exactly find out info about who that is). When Missionary Chen
first met Master Shen Kai, even without advanced notice, the first
words Master Shen Kai said to him was 'finally you have come...
(你终于来了) ' as Master has been anticipating his successor for a long
time.
So he didn't want his age gap to be too big with Master Shen
Kai's current incarnation in America (and yeah, he can see Master
Shen Kai's current incarnation and described to us before)... end
up he know Master Shen Kai only when Master is old and passed away
after a while.
